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King’s Polo Scenes
[Polo Scenes] Two lithographs: 1) close pack of...
[New York: Derrydale Press?; not published, ca. 1929]. King’s Polo Scenes. Two unpublished Polo Scenes by Edward King... Read More
Price: $2,000
Sports & Games
Rare books, first editions, prints and original art related to sports and leisure. Specializing in angling/fishing, fencing, golf, polo, hunting/shooting and the Derrydale Press.
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EMERSON TUTTLE'S COPY
Falling Leaves: Tales from a Gun Room.
New York: The Derrydale Press, 1937. Ripley, Aiden. First edition, No. 681 of 950 copies. EMERSON TUTTLE'S COPY. With the bookplate of Nantucket Artist Emerson Tuttle and the inscription "Emerson Tuttle Dec 42 from AFT" Read More
Price: $250
Falling Leaves: Tales from a Gun Room.
New York: The Derrydale Press, 1937. Ripley, Aiden. First edition, No. 950 of 950 copies (Frank Lowe's copy, he always took the last number). Well-told recollections of grouse, woodcock, geese, ducks, and other quarry. Read More
Price: $300
Inscribed by the AUthor, in Original Boards, Uncut
The London Angler’s Book, or Waltonian Chronicle, Containing Much Original Information to Anglers Generally Combined with Numerous Amusing Songs and...
London: Printed by G. Parsonage [for] John Baddeley, 1834. First Edition. Inscribed by the AUthor, in Original Boards, Uncut. Inscribed on front flyleaf: “Presented to [name obliterated] with the Author’s best regards. Nov. 29, 1846.”. Read More
Price: $500
Prose Halieutics or Ancient and Modern Fish Tattle.
London: John W. Parker and Son, 1854. First Edition. The writer’s purpose is “to treat of fish ichthyophagously, not ichthyologically, and to give, not fish-science, but fish-tattle.” (Prefatory notice). Read More
Price: $60
Prose Halieutics or Ancient and Modern Fish Tattle.
London: John W. Parker and Son, 1854. First edition. The writer's purpose is "to treat of fish ichthyophagously, not ichthyologically, and to give, not fish-science, but fish-tattle." (Prefatory notice). Read More
Price: $225
Prose Halieutics or Ancient and Modern Fish Tattle.
London: John W. Parker and Son, West End, 1854. The writer’s purpose is “to treat of fish ichthyophagously, not ichthyologically, and to give, not fish-science, but fish-tattle.” (Prefatory notice). Read More
Price: $175
Bound Volume of The Year Books 1938-1948 of The Badminton Club of New York.
New York: 1938-1948. President's own copy so marked on the spine. Read More
Price: $250
National Velvet.
New York: Morrow, 1935. James, Laurian. First American Edition. Read More
Price: $250
Automobile Quarterly. The Connoisseur's Periodical of Motoring Today, Yesterday and Tomorrow. Volume One Number One Spring 1962-Volume Six Number One...
New York: Automobile Quarterly, Inc, 1962-Summer 1967. Read More
Price: $500
The Fly Fisher's Guide.
Liverpool: Printed for the Author by G.F. Harris' Widow and Brothers, 1834. Third Edition. Among the earliest books with colored plates of flies. "One of the text books of the fly-fisher." (Westwood & Satchell). Read More
Price: $1,200
The Fly Fisher's Guide.
Liverpool: Printed for the Author by G.F. Harris' Widow and Brothers, 1816. First edition. Among the earliest books with colored plates of flies. "One of the text books of the fly-fisher." (Westwood & Satchell). Read More
Price: $2,250
The Fly Fisher’s Guide.
Liverpool: Printed for the Author by G.F. Harris’ Widow and Brothers, 1816. First edition. Among the earliest books with colored plates of flies. “One of the text books of the fly-fisher.” (Westwood & Satchell). Read More
Price: $2,000
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Deep Sea Big Game Fishing, Bay of Islands, New Zealand. A Special Article … [Cover title:] Rough Guide to New...
Glasgow: Printed for Private Circulation by Robert Maclehose & Co., Ltd, 1937. First edition. Scarce. Read More
Price: $750
Indian Pigeons and Doves.
London: Witherby and Co, 1913. First Edition. Intended as a guide for the sportsman as well as the specialist, the volume forms a scarce companion to Baker’s Indian Ducks and Their Allies. Read More
Price: $400
Flying Salmon. A Practical Book of Instruction dealing with all methods of Spinning for Salmon.
London: Longamns, Green and Co, [1938]. First Edition. The publisher’s stock of the first edition (1938) was destroyed during the bombing of London. Read More
Price: $250
“Scarce” — Bruns
Men, Fish and Tackle: The Story of J.A. Coxe as told to Ralph Bandini.
Bronson, MI: Published Privately by the Bronson Reel Company, May 1, 1936. First edition. “Scarce” — Bruns. Reminiscences of big game fishing and fishermen by the inventor of the famous Coxe reels (published by the company into which his company merged, and not entirely free of some informative promotion!). Bandini... Read More
Price: $600
Scarce Bandini title in Variant Binding
Tight Lines.
Los Angeles: Tight Lines Publishers, 1932. One of 500 copies (this copy unnumbered and out of series). Scarce Bandini title in Variant Binding. Read More
Price: $2,250
Veiled Horizons: Stories of Big Game Fish of the Sea.
New York: The Derrydale Press, 1939. First edition, one of 950 copies. Read More
Price: $300
The Bicyclers and Three Other Farces.
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1896. First edition. Inscribed "To Robert Howard Russell/ with affectionate regards/ John Kendrick Bangs/ May 16, 1896. " Publication date March, 1896. Rusell was Bangs's publisher for "Emblemland." and a famous publisher in the 1890s and beyond. A nice association. Read More
Price: $250
"The Bicyclers. A Farce" produced as "Curtain Raiser at the Knapp Mansion, Feb. 24, 1894"
Feb. 24, 1894. Extract. Read More
Price: $100
The Crack Shot; or, Young Rifleman’s Complete Guide: Being a Treatise on the Use of the Rifle.
New York: Geo. E. Woodward, [1873]. Second edition. Read More
Price: $150
’Long Shore. Foreword by Gordon Grand. Illustrations by Arthur D. Fuller.
New York: The Derrydale Press, [1939]. Fuller, Arthur D. First Edition, One of 750 copies, this one marked “HH” on the box label and the colophon, and signed by the author. Read More
Price: $750